English: Rachel Bella Calof is the author of MY STORY, an autobiographical account to her marriage to Abraham Calof and their efforts to homestead and raise a family on the plains of North Dakota at the turn of the century. Despite desperate hardships, the Calof's raised nine children, and Rachel was a driving force in the establishment of the regional school district. After 23 years outside Devil's Lake, the Calofs moved to St. Paul in 1917. Rachel begin her autobiography in 1936, which she wrote in longhand. The manuscript was "discovered" in the American Jewish Archives in the early 1990s, and published in 1995 as RACHEL CALOF'S STORY.

Date: 1949
Source: 15.5 cm x 22.8 cm
Format: Black and white reprint photo
Subject: Agriculture; Portraits; Calof, Rachel Bella
Coverage: St. Paul; Ramsey; Minnesota; United States
Local Identifier: P-26
Link to our record: http://reflections.mndigital.org/u?/jhs,412

From the Steinfeldt Photography Collection of the http://www.jhsum.org.